1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



481 



this $50,000,000 appropriation is heard 

 upon the doors of Congress, so too is 

 heard at the same time at this river's 

 headwaters the chug', chug, chug of 

 the keen axe, the rasping of the saw 

 and the crash of the falling giants as 

 they topple daily to the earth in thou- 

 sands. 



The headwaters are being cut out, 



the very headwaters whence this 

 mighty river is draining her supplies, 

 and the people of the Mississippi Val- 

 ley, oblivious to what is going on, are 

 beseeching Congress to deepen the 

 river. Cut out and dry up the river's 

 headwaters first and then spend fifty 

 million, yes, a hundred million dollars 

 fruitlessly, to deepen the channel ! 



THE IDYLLWILD SCHOOL OF 



FORESTRY 



BY 

 HELEN LUKENS JONES 



C TUDYINO forestry in a college trast, and assuredly favor rests with 



*** with books and black-boards and the latter, for texts and pictures of 



pictures for illustration, and studying trees, though often from life, are far 



forestry out of doors in splendidly less satisfying than actual communi- 



timbered regions, are in decided con- cation with real forest nobility. 



Idyllwild Cottages, San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside County, California 



